Terri Brooks, an SCI volunteer and UN Representative, is founder of Brooks Strategies, which provides communications and marketing services in the fields of science, health and higher education. She previously served as Dean of the College of Communications at Penn State University and Department Chair of the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. She has also worked as a journalist and columnist with The Chicago Tribune. She is a former Fulbright Scholar to India, and served for six years on the Fulbright Board of Directors. Ms. Brooks is the author of three nonfiction books and several hundred articles for newspapers and magazines.